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Alexei Leonov became the first person to exit a spacecraft in 1965 during the Voskhod 2 mission, but his Berkut suit ballooned in vacuum, forcing him to vent air to fit back through the airlock; the risky maneuver highlighted the suit’s limits, preceded Ed White’s U.S. EVA by about three months, and underscored that spacewalking demands careful engineering and planning beyond courage.
Two Russian cosmonauts, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, will conduct a five-hour extravehicular activity outside the ISS to install a solar radiation experiment on the Zvezda module and remove hardware from Poisk and Nauka, with a possible photo of a Kurs antenna on Progress 94 if time allows. Coverage starts at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT), with the EVA planned to begin around 10:15 a.m. EDT. Kud-Sverchkov has flown a spacewalk before, while Mikaev is on his first EVA; this is the second spacewalk of 2026.
The piece recalls Chrysler’s 1983 Electronic Voice Alert and other 1980s voice systems, noting how early car prompts—often seen as annoying—foreshadow today’s AI-powered driver-assistance features, while drivers still tend to mute these warnings much as in the past.